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Friday, September 12, 2008

Please take the time to see “Earthlings”.

As we contemplate our future while discussing the merits of differing fuel sources, let’s also discuss how we treat the least among us, the animals we live with. This is a very disturbing, but extremely important documentary.

I watched this 80 minute documentary last night and had difficulty going to sleep. The images were too striking for me to dismiss as isolated events. Understand that what is presented here is just the trailer. I’ve read that the video is on Google Videos. I haven’t checked so I don’t know for sure.

If you are strong enough to watch this video in its entirety, take the time to talk about it to the people in your life that you care about.

“OF ALL THE FILMS I HAVE EVER MADE, THIS IS THE ONETHAT GETS PEOPLE TALKING
THE MOST. FOR EVERY ONE PERSON WHO SEES EARTHLINGS,THEY WILL TELL THREE.”
-Joaquin Phoenix, actor/narrator

“IF I COULD MAKE EVERYONE IN THE WORLD SEE ONE FILM,I’D MAKE THEM SEE EARTHLINGS.”
-Peter Singer, author Animal Liberation

“EARTHLINGS IS THE DEFINITIVE FILM OF ALL TIME THATAMERICANS DON’T WANT TO SEE.”
-Gretchen Wyler, The Humane
Society of the United States

“EARTHLINGS IS THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST OF ANIMALRIGHTS FILMS.”
-Aint It Cool News

“FOR THOSE WHO WATCH EARTHLINGS, THE WORLD WILLNEVER BE THE SAME.”
-Tom Regan, author A Case
for Animal Rights

“EARTHLINGS MAY BE THE MOST POWERFUL FILMEXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER KNOWN!”
-Brent Emery, Senior VP, Maverick Films
“EARTHLINGS IS NOTHING SHORT OF A MASTERPIECE!”
-Lionel Friedberg, producer Animal Planet

“PROVOCATIVE AND DEFIANT. THIS IS A DEFINITIVE MILESTONE!”
-Edmund Stone, In Defense of Animals

“WATCHING EARTHLINGS IS THE GREATEST GIFTI HAVE EVER RECEIVED.
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW IGNORANT I HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST.”
-Bryce Dallas Howard, actress

“IT IS A RARE EXPERIENCE TO BE CHANGED BY A FILM. EARTHLINGS HAS THAT POWER.”
-Persia White, actress/activist

“THE MOST POWERFUL MOVIE I HAVE EVER KNOWN."-Robert Cohen, NotMilk.com

Thursday, January 17, 2008

IBFF is hosting John Sayles’ provocative new film “HoneyDripper” starring Danny Glover

IBFF Members and Supporters:

the IBFF is hosting screenings of John Sayles provocative new film “HoneyDripper” starring Danny Glover @Cinema Village located on 12th Street between University & 5th Avenue this (1/17-1/20/08) Thursday @7:15pm Friday @ 7:15pm Saturday @7:15pm and Sunday @1:50pm and 7:15pm.

The film is set in rural Alabama during the 1950’s and has a stellar cast that includes Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Stacy Keach and others.

HoneyDripper contains the uplifting and informative messages that are the hallmark of the IBFF and we urge you to join us at the cinema this weekend.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Daniel Beaty one-man show Emergence-See!, which explores the impact of slavery on African Americans.

Daniel Beaty recites the poem “Knock Knock” during a performance of his one-man show, Emergence-See!, recorded live at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

All Things Considered, July 23, 2007 · Daniel Beaty is the star and author of a one-man play called Emergence-See! In it, a sunken slave ship from the past — with its cargo of bones and chains — magically surfaces alongside the Statue of Liberty in present-day New York Harbor.

The play portrays the response of 43 different characters — old, young, male, female, straight and gay, all of them black — to this puzzling event. Their reactions to the suddenly inescapable memory of slavery vary dramatically.

Beaty stands 5 feet 11 inches tall. But as he changes characters, he swells into a bigger man, slumps into the size of someone smaller, and shrinks into a child. He recites poems that he has written, and he sings like a trained opera singer — which he is.

Earlier this year, Beaty won an Obie — the Off-Broadway equivalent of a Tony Award — for Emergence-See!

Beaty, 31, says he thinks of his play as “a whole community on stage.”

“There are so many residual feelings and emotions and issues from the experience of slavery,” Beaty tells Robert Siegel. “[Y]ou can be wealthy, working in corporate America, or you could be living in the projects, and still have some of those issues haunting you.”

His own life was a study in contrasts. Beaty grew up in Dayton, Ohio, with a single-parent mother and a heroin-addicted father who was in and out of prison. Beaty’s brother was a crack addict.

But Beaty also recalls the wonderful role model his mother provided for him and the mentors and teachers who encouraged him — leading, ultimately, to studies at Yale University.

“There have been constant conflicts between my upbringing and who I am in the world today,” Beaty says.

Saturday, March 27, 2004

well here it is!!

ok this is the Miro’ painting i was talking about. I believe it to be an origional lithograph signed in ink by the artist from the printers of Meaght in france where miro, Picasso, Dega, and other artist had tight aleginces with the printer for historical reproductions of the artwork.